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  • ‘Fake Work’ with Leigh Claire La Berge

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    Recording available on YouTube

    A video of this September 24, 2025, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. Using the most banal of office settings - corporate documentation - in the most extraordinary ... Read more

    Free

  • The Politics of Collecting with Eunsong Kim

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual ... Read more

    Free

  • Karl Marx in America with Andrew Hartman

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    Recording available on YouTube

    A video of this October 26, 2025, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. Historian Andrew Hartman introduces his new book, Karl Marx in America. To read Karl Marx ... Read more

  • Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, with Mitchell Abidor

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    Recording available on YouTube

    Join us for a conversation with Mitchell Abidor, author of the forthcoming book, "Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary."
    Today, thanks to his classic memoirs and novels, Victor Serge is highly esteemed by virtually all segments of the left. But who was this man, who led such a thrilling life on the frontlines of history?

  • Author Brian Kwoba; Hubert Harrison with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Big Bill Haywood, and Paterson silk strike leaders; book cover

    Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism

    Recording available on YouTube

    A video of this November 8, 2025, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. Brian Kwoba's recently published Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism introduces the working-class journalist, ... Read more

  • Capitalism and the Politics of Nature with Alyssa Battistoni

    Recording available on YouTube

    Rescheduled to November 16 / In her new book 'Free Gifts,' Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to place value on nature. But the key question is not the moral issue of why some kinds of nature shouldn’t be commodified, but the economic puzzle of why they haven’t been. Recovering and reinterpreting classical economists' idea of "free gifts of nature," Battistoni builds on Karl Marx’s critique of political economy to show how capitalism fundamentally treats nature as free for the taking.

  • Slavery and Capitalism: A Book Talk by David McNally

    Recording available on YouTube

    A video of this November 29, 2025, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel. A book talk by David McNally on Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally ... Read more

  • Marchers with banner, "Capitalism Isn't Working"

    Marx’s Capital, Volume I – A Short Course on Capitalist Production

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    Have you always wanted to study Marx’s Capital, Vol 1, and hesitated because of the time commitment to read the entire volume from start to finish? Join us for a 12-week study group covering key sections of the book.

  • Hegel’s Preface to the ‘Phenomenology’

    (ends on December 13) This eight-session course with Alex Steinberg concludes our ongoing studies of Hegel's mysterious work, The Phenomenology of Spirit. We will do a close reading of the ... Read more

  • Animals and Capitalism: Metabolic Labor

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    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    A five-session study group on nonhuman animals' relationship with capital as living, breathing, "commodified" beings. What differentiates nonhuman animals from non-living commodified objects is the way their metabolic and reproductive capacities are harnessed in production. In this study group, we will focus on how metabolic labor has been theorized in feminist studies and contemporary Marxist environmental and animal studies, with a specific focus on the particular function of nonhuman animals for capitalism.

  • Hegel and Marx

    Hegel, Marx, and Capital

    Recording available on YouTube

    Andy Blunden presents insights from two new books on Marx's use of Hegel's Logic in the writing of Capital.

  • Reading ‘Karl Marx in America’

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Reading Group

    An eight-week study of Andrew Hartman's recently published Karl Marx in America.  To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States ... Read more

    Free

  • New Studies on the Left: A Panel Discussion

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting
    Virtual Event

    Contributors Erica Carter, Jay Jurie, Paul Krehbiel, Harry Targ, Janet Tucker, Meta Van Sickle join editor Carl Davidson for a discussion of the latest New Studies on the Left. Contributors ... Read more

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  • Slavery and Capitalism: A Reading Group

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Join us for a nine-session reading group on David McNally's recently published Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History. McNally's book presents a systematic Marxist account of the capitalist character ... Read more